Sunday, April 7, 2013

Best Experience


 Both easy patterns to make.
M quilt- 14 inch strips with 3 inch white in between.  I sewed all four together.  I then cut it and added the racing stripe that also had 3 inch white on both side.  Sewed 14 inch strip on both sides of racing stripe.  Easy peasy.
B quilt- Used leftover material I believe they are 13x10 in blocks with 3 inch white in between.
Pillows-Leftover material.  No pattern just thrown together.
I love the embroidered initials.  It makes the quilts more personal

      In 2012, I wanted to make my sweet friend a quilt.  It took her awhile to decide that she wanted me to make her son, M, a quilt for his bed.  We went shopping for material and found a pattern that she liked.  Most of the time I get right to making the quilt, but.... the Christmas rush for quilts hit the Mama Bear cave hard and I wasn't able to get to M's quilt.  
After the holidays, I was finally able to get M's quilt done and it turned out so cute.  I had enough material left over to make a quilt for his brother B. The boys share a room so I thought I would make a different pattern that would still match.  After that quilt I thought I would throw in some pillow cases, and pillows too.
M and B have a sister too.  I thought I couldn't just make the boys a quilt, so I quickly whipped up a quilt for their sister A too.  That was a lot of work!!!!!  
I was able to take over the quilts while the kids were home.  Now remember, only M thought he was getting a quilt.  I walked up to the door with all of the quilts in my big blue IKEA bags, and before I could even knock on the door M swung open the door with a huge grin on his face and threw his arms around me!  He was so excited for his quilt.  His mom told me he had asked her about the quilt all the time.
All three kids gathered around to see M's new quilt.  I pulled it out and M shrieked with excitement.  He snatched it up and wrapped himself in it while yelling "I LOVE IT!!!!"  I got a lump in my throat.  It was adorable.
I told M "I have something else for you."  He ran back over and we pulled all of the pillows and pillow cases out.  More excited screaming, more jumping, more hugging.  By this time I was holding back tears.  I was so happy that I was able to make a child so happy.  M had run into his room and pulled all of his bedding off his bed so that he could get the new quilt on.  As he did I asked B if he wanted to look in my bag to see if he had missed anything.  He peeked in the bag and his eyes got wide.  He yanked the quilt out of the bag and saw the big B on the quilt.  He let out of whoop and gave me a hug and followed his brother's example.  He rushed into his room to pull the bedding off of his bed.  
A, her mom, and I were laughing at the boys.  I told A to look in the bag to see if we missed anything and she pulled out her quilt.  "Oh my gosh," A said "I have to go and clean my room so that my quilt looks good in there.  Thank you" she squealed.
M and B had me come and see how their room looked and thanked me again.  My friend, their mom, was thankful and adorable about the whole thing.  I left and cried on the way home because I was so grateful to be able to make someone smile that day.  I have made a ton of quilts for people, and with that I have had lots of different responses to those quilts.  Sometimes I never hear thank you.  Sometimes people thank me and tell me years later how much they still love that quilt.  Sometimes people give the quilt away because it didn't "match" their house.  And sometimes I get to see the pure joy that quilts bring to people.

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